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. 2022 Mar 2;37(16):4112–4119. doi: 10.1007/s11606-022-07412-9

Table 2.

Percentage of 3888 Patients with Prediabetes with Clinical Care Activities Within 12 Months of Cohort Entry*

Outcome Within 3 months,n(%) Within 6 months,n(%) Within 12 months,n(%)
PCP practices
≥ 1 PCP visit coded with ICD diagnosis of prediabetes 147 (3.8) 262 (6.7) 405 (10.4)
≥ 1 visit coded with ICD diagnosis of prediabetes among those with ≥ 1 PCP visit 147 (8.5) 262 (10.5) 405 (13.0)
≥ 1 glycemic test ordered 797 (20.5) 1578 (40.6) 2463 (63.4)
≥ 1 referral to nutrition 8 (0.2) 19 (0.5) 37 (1.0)
≥ 1 metformin prescription†‡ 77 (2.0) 126 (3.2) 211 (5.4)
Patient behaviors
≥ 1 PCP visit 1739 (44.7) 2493 (64.1) 3105 (79.9)
≥ 1 glycemic test completed 447 (11.5) 1091 (28.1) 1957 (50.3)
≥ 1 glycemic test completed among those with test ordered 438 (55.0) 1080 (68.4) 1950 (79.2)
≥ 1 nutrition visit completed§ 15 (0.4) 25 (0.6) 39 (1.0)
≥ 1 nutrition visit completed (claims)* 16 (0.4) 27 (0.7) 41 (1.1)
≥ 1 nutrition visit completed among those with referral placed 4 (50.0) 13 (68.4) 28 (75.7)
≥ 1 metformin fill (claims)* 121 (3.1) 148 (3.8) 189 (4.9)
≥ 1 metformin fill (claims)* among those with prescription 55 (71.4) 89 (70.6) 161 (76.3)

*EHR data used unless otherwise noted. n refers to the number of unique individuals who had at least one occurrence of each activity

†American Medical Association proposed quality measures for prediabetes (2019)

‡Some portion of these patients may have been started on metformin for diabetes prevention or once they developed diabetes

§More patients had a nutrition visit than had a referral since a referral is not required by all insurances